Weekly Update

MORE THAN 100,000 VISITS

TO DATE, since our launch on May 1, 2013, we have had 108,131 page visits, with hundreds of subscribers from Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties and other locations around the state. Disinterested daily Counterize update adds to the number of visits every day.

APTOS KEYBOARD SERIES LAUNCHES

PIANIST ANNA DMYTRENKO, first artist in Josef Sekon’s new series, performs Sunday afternoon. Click our CALENDAR

SPECTORDANCE’S EAST WEST ON TOUR

SPECTORDANCE’S powerful East West collaborative dance project about gang culture, which premiered last year, is being revived and taken on tour. Its four dancers will be joined by Canadian rap artist Baba Brinkman this weekend for two performances at Diavolo Theater in Los Angeles. It will be staged for students at Stanton Theater in King City on Sept. 25 and for the public at The Western Stage in Salinas on Sept. 26 and 27.

MARIN ALSOP CALLS FOR A ‘JUST PLAYING-FIELD’ FOR WOMEN

CABRILLO FESTIVAL CONDUCTOR uses her Last Night at the BBC Proms appearance to sound off. Click HERE

THE DARK SIDE OF MUSIC

CHICAGO SYMPHONY CONDUCTOR RICCARDO MUTI gave an interview on Charlie Rose that was recently rebroadcast on PBS. In it he drew the distinction between words and music suggesting with the latter you can’t lie. Really? Pacific Standard’s Tom Jacobs looks deeper. Click HERE

ARTS COUNCIL MONTEREY COUNTY GRANTS

OCTOBER 9 is application deadline. For details and requirements, click HERE

PERFORMING ARTS PEOPLE

MONTEREY JAZZ FESTIVAL managing director Colleen Bailey; until January 2015 was executive director of the National Steinbeck Center. Click HERE

PACIFIC REPERTORY THEATRE

WILL BE HOLDING its annual ‘Monterey Bay FallFest Arts and Crafts Faire’ on September 19 and 20 from 10am to 6pm, at the Monterey State Historic Park’s Custom House Plaza in downtown Monterey. PRT opens Oliver! this week. Click our CALENDAR

FRESH REVIEWS

DEBUT OF Espressivo Orchestra “tremendous success,” says Roger Emanuels. Click HERE

JEWEL THEATRE’S The Price, “explosive force,” says Philip Pearce. Click HERE

Scott MacClelland, editor